From: Toshitaka Kumano <kumano@cl.cilas.net>
Subject: Re: Sockets - newbie at a brick wall
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:23:06 +0900
Date: 2002-12-13T01:23:06+09:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1039710121.26050.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3df895c0.17679291@news.demon.co.uk
Sorry for somewhat off topic from GNAT.Sockets,
John McCabe wrote:
> >1) Your use of Socket_Datagram with a Connect() call. Perhaps you
> >should try Socket_Stream sockets.
>
> Datagrams are 'connectionless' sockets so you wouldn't use the
> Connect() call at all.
This statement seems restrictve.
You can do "connect()" for Datagram socket and get some merits(*).
*) Detect ICMP errors from the remote peer, better performance
in some protocol stacks and wider avaiability of system calls
other than recvfrom/sendto....
--
Toshitaka Kumano
Kamakura, Japan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-12 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-11 18:40 Sockets - newbie at a brick wall Benjamin Place
2002-12-12 9:58 ` John McCabe
2002-12-12 14:19 ` John McCabe
2002-12-12 16:23 ` Toshitaka Kumano [this message]
2002-12-12 17:27 ` John McCabe
2002-12-13 11:25 ` John McCabe
2002-12-12 16:49 ` Benjamin Place
2002-12-13 11:31 ` Simon Wright
2002-12-13 13:52 ` John McCabe
2002-12-13 22:38 ` Benjamin Place
2002-12-16 10:16 ` John McCabe
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